From 0a318777ad611e5b0080807e19d5030bbe5e8431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KushBlazingJudah <59340248+KushBlazingJudah@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:29:44 -0300
Subject: fix fail with posting to a down instance's thread

in a couple of scenarios, fchannel may fail to contact a server and due
to faulty error handling, activities that are supposed to send never do.
this commit corrects said error handling.
---
 activitypub/activity.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'activitypub/activity.go')

diff --git a/activitypub/activity.go b/activitypub/activity.go
index bd57778..b05de07 100644
--- a/activitypub/activity.go
+++ b/activitypub/activity.go
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ func (activity Activity) AddFollowersTo() (Activity, error) {
 		reqActivity := Activity{Id: e + "/followers"}
 		aFollowers, err := reqActivity.GetCollection()
 		if err != nil {
-			return activity, util.MakeError(err, "AddFollowersTo")
+			// Safely fail so we can continue to federate
+			config.Log.Printf("failed to get collection from %s: %v", reqActivity.Id, err)
+			continue
+
+			// return activity, util.MakeError(err, "AddFollowersTo")
 		}
 
 		// get followers of activity actor
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